Children's Department

Brandon Hines - Child and YA Librarian

Brandon Hines
Children's and YA Librarian

bhines@hayspublib.org

What do we have for Tweens?

Many of our programs and activities are intended specifically for 4th-5th graders.
View our Tweens flyer (PDF, 2.3mb)


Hays USD 489 schools have a new way to locate Accelerated Reader books - online! The School District has unified its AR lists and books may be looked up at www.arbookfind.com. Use this link in conjunction with our online catalog to locate AR books.

Holy Family Elementary maintains a separate AR list that is available for reference at the Children's Department Circulation Desk.

AR BookFinder

Pictures of a few past events . . .

The Beginners' Chess Tournament is always a popular spring activity.
Read Across Kansas

During Read Across Kansas we tallied the number of books read by Ellis County children over a one-week period and filled a map of Kansas with Jayhawks to reflect the impressive numbers.
Read Across Kansas

WKSA Pajama Concert and Story Time
Students and faculty of the Western Kansas String Academy performed
while stories featuring the musical world were read.
PJ 1 PJ 2 PJ 3